Oscar Abraham Pabón is interested in modernism’s intellectual heritage and its visual language, and applies this to everyday, utilitarian objects. He has incorporated elements from a Rietveld chair into his own desk and transformed a towel into an archetype of an architectural scale model. In this way Pabón lends ordinary products a sculptural character, simultaneously unveiling modernist design’s true intentions, seemingly knocking it off its pedestal.

Pabón’s current focus is on the role of the piano in twentieth-century avantgarde music such as Arnold Schönberg’s atonal twelve-tone music and John Cage’s radical compositions. The artist relates to the instrument in his very own way, obscuring the boundaries between use, process and gesture.